THE INVESTIGATORY INTERVIEWS were continuing. But with no further evidence on Laura’s colleagues, Rafferty was stalemated. There was nothing else for it but to try her other friends. Her presumed lesbian friends. There might be a whisper there. That’s all he wanted, just a whisper. He had contacted the love birds Josie Sails and Nita Hendricks and got a few more names to add those that Lilley had given him. There were several in London and he decided they might as well have a day there. It would give them both a much-needed break from Elmhurst. After that they would trawl through the rest and just hope they got a break. They were already in their second week of the investigation and nothing had broken. Even David Lodge in the cells had still said nothing. Though at least Rafferty had fou

